Florida the new No. 1, Clemson rises to No. 4 #2 Miami #4 Clemson #13 FSU #16 VT #20 NC State No sign of BMFD as of 1:15pm
Rankings & Lists
The Demise of ACC Football
Inane utterances from the local media, gross inaccuracies perpetrated by the national media, and glaring inadequacies of State’s athletic department frequently provide topics to address here. But every so often, someone in one of the organizations that we often ridicule will absolutely nail an issue. Such is the case with an article today by Pete […]
Forbes: The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams (Updated 4pm)
Note: Introductory Message for our new visitors – SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature Forbes has come out with a great piece that effectively ranks college basktball programs by “value” that is primarily derived from operating financials from last year. You need to realize that a major component of ‘value’ is the […]
SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted […]
Some Blog Love For the Wolfpack Frontcourt
According to collegehoops.net, the Pack’s is the best in the land: 1. North Carolina State (Brandon Costner, Ben McCauley, Gavin Grant, J.J. Hickson, Tracy Smith): Just like Washington State in the backcourt section, it’s odd to see NC State at the top of any rankings. However, it’s tough to find a team that has a […]
Southern Pigskin Omits Rivers from All-Decade Team
Southern Pigskin has attempted to put together an All-ACC football team for the last decade. You can see the team here. I guess I have to respect them for trying, even if they made a significant whiff on the most important position on the field. I’m guessing that their ‘rationale’ for putting Chris Weinke on […]
TOB: FBall Coaching Rankings Shine
In recent years, Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel made quite a name for himself with his rankings of the best – and the WORST – college football coaches. Perhaps NC State fans followed Mandel’s rankings a little closer than other schools because of the presence of our own Chuck Amato. In June of 2005, Mandel listed […]
Top 10 College Basketball Coaches
In mid-October, we blogged this entry related to Stewart Mandel’s list of The Best and The Worst College Football coaches. Today, Mandel shares his Top 10 active college basketball coaches. Mandel qualifies his rankings as follows: Much like I’ve done the past two seasons for football, the following list is an attempt to rank the […]
Great State Moments, v2007
One of my favorite things about StateFansNation is the blog’s ability to archive items for future use. Over the last couple of years we have chronicled special rankings and lists that we have included NC State that would be interesting for you. Since tonight is the NCAA Championship, I thought that today would be a […]
ACC Awards – SFN’s Take
An exciting, highly competitive 2006-07 ACC regular season is over. We wanted to get our thoughts on record prior to seeing the “official” media results. The following are my personal votes, and do not reflect the consensus view of SFN. I do have some data from other SFN bloggers, which I will also present. Coach […]
